Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Facebook has been making a flurry of changes to the functionality of Facebook Profiles, Facebook Pages, Facebook Community Pages, and Facebook Places Pages over the last two months. Status Updates are now called “Stories” in the News Feed. That said, technology is now constantly in flux.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2024

Some examples of online communities include a LinkedIn or Facebook group where industry professionals connect. How online community platforms differ from other virtual networking communities A major difference between virtual networking communities like LinkedIn or Facebook and an online community platform is why they’re used.

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TechImpact

APRIL 17, 2014

Facebook reach is loosely defined as the number of people who saw a piece of your content. Reach can be generated by purchasing Facebook advertisement, achieving organic reach, and having users like, comment, or share your post. Here are ways your nonprofit can generate more reach on Facebook. Hammer out your content strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 14, 2012

That said, Facebook has made some recent upgrades – and more are coming – that nonprofits need to know about. If you find the changes confusing, my upcoming webinars on Facebook and Facebook Apps will discuss and demonstrate click-by-click these changes as well many others.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 4, 2011

Unlike the Q&A site Quora, Facebook Questions allows brands to ask and answer questions. On Quora you have to be a person, but Facebook Questions uses your nonprofit’s Page and avatar as your Facebook Questions identity. Step One :: Add Questions to Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. When a person feels self-efficacious, they are more likely to be proactive in signing up for other volunteer activities and feel more confident in their abilities to be an advocate for the nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 11, 2012

That said, in recent months Facebook has launched a slew of new features for Facebook Pages. The others will be covered in my upcoming webinars on Facebook and Facebook Apps for Nonprofits. Facebook has launched a new App Center for Timeline and Mobile with over 600 Apps. 2) New Facebook Pages Manager App.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. People who are active on Twitter tend to be plugged into current events and trending news. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called " activity streams." " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. Help the organization get authorized for receiving donations on Facebook. Do this weekly or monthly.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Over the past few months you’ve probably noticed the Facebook like button on at least a few of the websites you frequent. To date, over 1 million sites use the Facebook Like button. Some publishers are seeing up to 85% more time spent on their site by people who use the Facebook Like button. A few interesting facts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

The platform, however, is different than Facebook or Twitter. If your nonprofit’s account is already active but registered as a personal account, you can also switch over from a personal to a business account without losing followers. For example, Feeding America is a nonprofit with a national network of more than 200 food banks.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2018

In a Facebook post dated January 11th, Mark Zuckerberg shared a completely new direction for the News Feed to make sure the “time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent.”. So his new goal for the News Feed is to create more meaningful conversations between “friends, family and groups”. First of all, don’t freak out.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Over the past few months you’ve probably noticed the Facebook like button on at least a few of the websites you frequent. Is your nonprofit using the Facebook Like button ? To date, over 1 million sites use the Facebook Like button. It helps you harnesses the power of Facebook –. A few interesting facts. 3 Starter Tips.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2010

I was just getting ready to add “Create a Facebook Page for a campaign in addition to your organization’s Facebook Page&# to my Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations when I read that Facebook had launched “Community Pages&#. Tags: Facebook FourSquare.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

So, how does Facebook fit into all of this? They have more than 750 million active user and at least half of them log-on daily. Facebook is a communications platform with close to a billion users. They can simply subscribe to see your public feed. How do you see Facebook subscriptions working for your organization?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 2, 2010

Over the last few weeks I have been running a Facebook Advertising experiment for the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page. While the ad itself produced little-to-no results, some unexpected Facebook insights did come out of running the ad. Facebook did not run the second ad for reasons I do not know. It’s time.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2017

These days, individuals receive a LOT of email and see a LOT of posts on their social media feeds. It’s not uncommon to hear a friend say that they are going to take a “detox break” from Twitter or Facebook, or that they are going to declare email bankruptcy. The Facebook whiteboard video reached over 3.3

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

The list offers a wide range of activities to choose from to support the financial growth of the organization. Get the organization approved on Facebook and other platforms 501(c)(3) nonprofits are raising billions on Facebook using birthday fundraisers or personal fundraisers or simply adding a donate button to posts.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 25, 2012

Have you been wondering if you should add social plugins - such as a Facebook Like Button or Activity Feed - to your website? Our helpful support Apricots have developed easy-to-follow instructions on how you can add 5 Facebook plugins to websites.

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Candid

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It also helps cultivate the support of a younger generation that’s also highly active on social media, potentially turning them into future donors. For example, on Instagram , around 12% of followers typically see your content, but on Facebook and LinkedIn , it’s 4% or less. Ask them to tag your nonprofit so others can find you.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Grab the RSS feed at the bottom of the search results page and add to Google Reader. Feedly.com is a way to follow news thems and track multiple RSS feeds or blogs in one place. Talkwalker Alerts is a tool that tracks news stories, social media activity, and blog posts mentioning your brand or keywords. General Listening.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 11, 2012

That said, in recent months Facebook has launched a slew of new features for Facebook Pages. The others will be covered in my upcoming webinars on Facebook and Facebook Apps for Nonprofits. Facebook has launched a new App Center for Timeline and Mobile with over 600 Apps. 2) New Facebook Pages Manager App.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

While Facebook and Twitter may be waning a bit in popularity and usage, visual storytelling platform Instagram keeps growing in engagement and daily time spent on the site. . So what keeps 35% of online adults engaged with and actively using Instagram? For most of these users, it’s Instagram Stories. . Well, it depends! Amirah, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In early October we made the rounds to promote the book in Boston and I had a chance to meet Brooke Freedman and Brian Halligan at Hubspot. I happened to mention that I was seeing reports from nonprofit folks about the recent change in the Facebook Algorithm and Megan Keaney Anderson offered to write this guest post. What has changed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the questions that came up during a discussion of concerns at the beginning of the day, was "We have 5,000 friends on Facebook, now what? In your status updates, use the news feed to raise awareness. Escalate relationship w/periodic updates through Facebook messaging with higher asks. I suggest a tweetup.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 24, 2011

Have you been wondering if you should add social plugins - such as a Facebook Like Button or Activity Feed - to your website? Our helpful support Apricots have developed easy-to-follow instructions on how you can add 5 Facebook plugins to websites powered by our Wild Apricot Membership Management Software. read more ).

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

There are so many social media platforms available to us now, it is not necessary to have active accounts on all of them. If the audience you’re trying to engage is not typically active on that social media platform, why spend the time, effort, and make the investment? It’s completely free. I should promote my nonprofit M-F only.

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TechImpact

MARCH 20, 2014

Twitter is the most dtnamic, fastest changing of all social media feeds. Because of its high turnover rate, staying active on Twitter 5 days per week is imperative to increasing engagement. 4 days per week, post on Google+ and Facebook. It is okay to miss a day or two on these feeds because there is so much less competition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Facebook Changes: A Complete Guide – by Mari Smith. Also, a few insights about the what the changes mean for Facebook pages. I don’t really feel comfortable sharing the fact that I took my kids to Chuck Cheese with all my professional colleagues who are friends with me on Facebook.” Sharing Philosophy.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

As anyone active on social media knows, Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter in October 2022, and since then, the platform and its users have been on a wild roller coaster ride. Meta has also promised many more upcoming features for the platform, including: Improved recommendations in the feed as they fine-tune the algorithm.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2011

Over on my Facebook Page and during recent Leveraging Social Media Peer Group discussions , there have been questions about Edgerank and colleague Devon Smith has been experimenting. Edgerank Is To Facebook As Pagerank is to Google. That is, how often a fan views and interacts with your Facebook page and individual posts.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Between all the events , phone calls and mailings your plan can bring you and your team back to the most important activities. For example, you need to raise $250,500 to achieve the organization’s mission of feeding 1,000 families. However, this goal should be the one that all the other smaller goals feed into.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Note from Beth: While many of us focus our attention on FB pages, Facebook groups can be a good platform for nonprofits to use for informal peer learning groups, getting feedback from your post passionate fans , or to cultivate and support a brand ambassadors group. Making Facebook Groups Rock – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau.

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TechImpact

JUNE 18, 2014

But as we’ve detailed in previous blogs , with all the increased competition online, getting noticed through the typical social media feeds and through your website is becoming increasingly difficult. Social media feeds are powerful tools that are just waiting to be effectively utilized. Attract volunteers steadily. Make it easy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Facebook Ad Platform November 13, 2007 It always takes me a bit to digest new Web 2.0 news, so I’m just now blogging about last week’s news that Facebook launched a new ad platform.

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